[General] Fwd: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work

[Neil Spear]

Very cool.  For 3 years, I worked in NASA mission operations for the Space
Shuttle and Space station, then 1 year in Auxiliary propulsion design for
Ares 1.  Also, my educational background is orbital mechanics.  I'd be
willing to lend any knowledge to any future efforts.


- Neil


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Bahiy Watson <bahiy1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is right up my alley. I work on planes now for Boeing. But not too
> long ago I worked on an Apollo style crew capsule. I had ideas on how to
> make it lighter but the ideas were shot down. They were considered too
> risky for space flight, but in the airplane business they do what I was
> suggesting all the time.
> On May 16, 2012 3:57 PM, "Ethan Chew" <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yo,
>>
>>       Some more ears to the ground info on the DARPA grant of
>> HackerSpaces in Space Program.  Jerrry Isdale of Maui Makers now has
>> $500,000.00 he will be using to give $30,000 grants every 3 months for  "education
>> and research projects that enhance humanity’s survivability, on earth and
>> in space."
>>
>>                   Fare Onwards & Upwards, ML256,
>>                   Ethan/spacefelix
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Edward Wright <edward.v.wright at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM
>> Subject: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work
>> To: Robin Snelson <robin.snelson at gmail.com>, Michael Clive <
>> zeinin at gmail.com>, Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>, Scott Nietfeld <
>> snietfeld at gmail.com>, Gary Hudson <gary at ssi.org>
>>
>>
>> I just got a message from Jerry Isdale, who is DARPA lead for a new
>> project, Hackerspaces in Space. He wants to meet us at Maker Faire.
>>
>> Jerry has $500,000, which he'll be using to give $30k grants every 3
>> months for "education and research projects that enhance humanity’s
>> survivability, on earth and in space."
>>
>> The following is from the DARPA project proposal:
>>
>> *There are three investment areas we want to focus on in the first
>> decade: education, space economy and biospheres.
>> **The first area is creating new generations of makers and researchers
>> who can research and implement the necessary technologies. This will be in
>> the form of an open source education program, with both self-education and
>> group-education components, designed to teach successive generations the
>> basics of Maker/ Tinker/ Hacker thinking and encourage continual innovation
>> and improvement of the program itself. We also want to inspire an interest
>> in space development through providing opportunities for applied sciences
>> and engineering.
>> **
>> **Second, investments in projects to create a viable Near-Earth space
>> economy:
>>
>> *
>>
>>    - Space prospecting and mining: Focusing on automated small body
>>    electronics: robotics, remote sensing, navigation.
>>
>>
>>    - Space power station: Providing energy to the Near-Earth space
>>    facilities. Solar panels, microwave power transmission
>>
>>
>>    - Space manufacturing: Once provided with power and material, it is
>>    possible to start manufacturing in space. To scale up production, research
>>    into self-replicating 3D printing machines and fully automated
>>    manufacturing.
>>
>> *
>> **Finally, efforts to make it possible to live autonomously in space and
>> other planets of the solar system through the creation of self-encapsulated
>> biospheres with improvements in hydroponics and waste recycling.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
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